Monday, June 11, 2012

Ballet Slipper is the most popular wedding nail color to hit the beauty market!

2012_06_essie-ballet-slippers-bottle.gifWedding nail polishes are as personal as the brides themselves, naturally, but one color manages to endure: Essie's Ballet Slippers. This pale pink shade flatters almost everyone, and it remains a big hit with brides. Even Ashley Hebert, the Bachelorette star who found love with JP Rosenbaum on the show, says that she's planning to wear Ballet Slippers at her wedding. So what is it about this color? We went straight to the source: Essie Weingarten herself.
And Essie says... >>

"As a young girl, I was simply devoted to ballet," she told us, "and as an adult, I harbored a deep nostalgia for the ideal femininity of pink ballet slippers. I really thought I'd become a prima ballerina one day—who knew I'd end up in the nail polish business? The staggering popularity of this shade is a testament to the fact that dreams do come true.”
So there you have it, ladies.

Read full article: http://racked.com/archives/2012/06/11/why-is-essies-ballet-slippers-nail-polish-such-a-popular-wedding-color.php

Friday, May 11, 2012

Monday, April 16, 2012

Elderly mom

Contribution by Stevie Kirby

My mom has lived alone the past few years. Lately we have been noticing that she is starting to be more forgetful. She tells the same stories over and over. Each time she tells a story the details change until the story is not even recognizable as the original story. One day I was at her house and a neighbor was over visiting. She started telling a story that she was remembering as something that I did. But in fact the story that she was telling actually happened to a friend of mine a few years ago. I just had to give the neighbor a shake of my head and a wink to let her know that it did not happen to me. She completely understood. So my husband and I decided that it was time for my mom to move in with us. Before we moved her in, we decided to get a security system from security choice. I am pretty sure that my mom is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. I didn’t want her to be the next face on the news as a missing person. So with a security system, at least I could be alerted if she opened a door to go out of the house. So she will live with us until we can’t take care of her anymore. Right now I don’t want to think about that.

The Luxury of owning an XTRA-LARGE tote handbag (glamor)!